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The tomb of Rav Ashi, a Babylonian sage, is located inside an IDF military outpost on the Blue Line between the two countries.
By Vita Fellig
“There’s no crisis here that needs solving except for the dislike people have of the Chassidic community, and that to me is the issue,” said Moshe Krakowski, of Yeshiva University.
Rav Ashi was laid to rest in the Upper Galilee near the present site of Kibbutz Manara.
“The Chassidic world has always crossed borders,” one of the wedding guests said.
The 35 enlisted in the police as an alternative to serving in the IDF.
Of the 3,000 religious Haredi men who received army conscription notices during the summer, only 461 complied.
"The IDF is investing great efforts to recruit ultra-Orthodox members under conditions that will allow them to maintain their lifestyle and beliefs.”
By Max Gelber
AG Baharav-Miara wants to "destroy the Land of Israel," Rabbi Hirsch declared.
Many IDF reservists have done over 300 days of service since the war began due to the shortage of fighters to replace them.
The name of the new Haredi brigade is "Hashmonaim" after the Maccabees.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The 2024 Republican nominee for the White House will reportedly schmooze and nosh at Gottlieb's kosher restaurant.
The event saw 31 Haredi men, graduates of the “Avneit” unit, complete their rigorous training and officially join the ranks of the Border Police, a paramilitary unit within the Israel Police that focuses on border security, counterterrorism, and maintaining internal security.
Arbel was speaking one day after Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told lawmakers he would begin drafting yeshiva students next month.
A budget of 70 million shekels ($18.6 million), was approved.
Benny Gantz submitted this bill in the previous Knesset.
Haredi party leaders have expressed openness to the proposed legislation as it does not include forced enlistment quotas.
By Hanan Greenwood / Israel Hayom
In most cases, these are students from the Sephardi yeshivot, who are in any case better integrated into the general Israeli society.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Israeli prime minister had asked for another extension—this time for 30 days—so he could reach a political agreement on the issue
By Israel Hayom
Haredim who enlist would get benefits while those who do not would be financially disadvantaged through what is called “negative incentives.”
By JNS & JewishPress.com News Desk
“Some will say that since Abraham our forefather, who was blessed with Isaac our forefather at the age of 100, there has not been such a historic birth.”
By Hanan Greenwood / Israel Hayom
The army wants to recruit ultra-Orthodox citizens to protect their own communities.
By David Isaac
Haredim have realized they need to rely on their own capabilities and resources to defend their communities and families.
By COLlive.com
"The Lubavitcher Rebbe tirelessly worked to strengthen Jewish identity throughout the world," Illouz said. "He was a man of both thought and action, an educator and a spiritual leader of global stature."
Omer Bar Lev participated in a protest outside the home of Rabbi Gershon Edelstein.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"If the conscription law is not passed before the budget, we will withdraw from the government," Yitzhak Goldknopf said.
The anarchists stepped up their protests in Bnei Brak, but some Haredim used it as a Tefillin opportunity.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Everything is aboveboard with the way the Kiryas Joel School District educates Chassidic children with special needs, explains district superintendent Joel Petlin.
Rabbi Sinai Halberstam issued a ruling to the volunteers of the United Hatzalah in the city that It is a mitzvah and absolute obligation to carry the weapons with them even on Shabbat and holidays as long as the threat of terrorism exists.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The group met with a Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist leader and expressed their support for his cause.
44% of Haredi parent don't object to their children learning English, as long as it's after school hours.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Technology usage is up, along with a rapid increase in technological training, which may impact wages among haredim in the future.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Hermes 900, made by Elbit, can be used for intelligence-gathering and airstrikes
By COLlive.com
"Lulavs are for personal use only and must accompany the traveler at the time of entry into Canada. Commercial imports are not permitted,” the government website states.
The army has not taken down the illegal Arab construction near Efrat or the illegal Bedouin shanty town of Khan al-Ahmar.
The community built 15 buildings including a shul and a yeshiva.
By Israel Hayom
Tuesday’s incident was not the first time the Jordanians have allegedly refused entry to visitors clearly identifiable as Jews by their dress or ritual objects.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Report: Despite forming more than 50% of Israeli exports, Israel Innovation Authority figures show the two communities’ participation in high-tech industry is declining.
The humane logistics of humanitarian aid.
A kosher line subscriber will have the ability to switch between a kosher line service plan and another plan in the same cellular company, and vice versa, while keeping their personal phone number.
Through efforts of Yad La’isha Legal Aid Center, court imposes rare housing sanctions on recalcitrant husband.
For 135 days R remained in jail and refused to release Orly, conditioning her freedom on impossible financial demands.
The Netzach Yehuda Battalion’s Chanukah candle lighting ceremony Wednesday was held near Beit-El.
The Israeli government has informed the US that Israel won't be moving ahead with the construction of a much-needed neighborhood for Haredim (Ultra-Orthodox) in the Atarot section of northern Jerusalem.
If the person requesting help is female, it would be more halachically correct that she be treated by another female than by a male.
The average Israeli is spending thousands of shekels trying to figure out how to keep their kids busy in August.
Across the globe, people from all walks of life came together on Sunday to mark the 27th anniversary of the passing of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
After a covert and strenuous investigation, the public phase began Sunday with the arrest a number of suspects on suspicion of committing bribery, fraud and breach of trust offenses.
"The study's findings indicate a trend of significant change in the Haredi society's attitude toward sexual abuse."
"The process of identifying and releasing the bodies is in its final stages."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The ceremony, first held in 2019 with some 1,200 people, was attended by hundreds of religious soldiers and members of the bereaved families.
The higher the share of elderly persons in the municipality, the lower its infection rate in the second wave.
"These extremists are preventing other people who wish to get tested from doing so."
By Israel Hayom
The hope is that the decree, issued by rabbis Chaim Kanievsky, Gershon Edelstein, Shalom Cohen and Elimelech Firer, will be helpful in curbing morbidity in the “haredi” community.
By Israel Hayom
The ultra-Orthodox comprise about 12 percent of Israel’s general population and only a fraction of the population aged 65 and over.
They need a miracle. Meanwhile, they sing.
A mother and her three children missed being hit by just a few seconds.
The wording of Dayan Rosenberg's letter is most extraordinary in the Haredi community, where spiritual leaders refrain from publicly addressing sex offenses or similar issues and in rare cases do so only vaguely, using hints and code words.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Mitchell Silk is responsible for leading the U.S. Treasury Department’s role on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.
The Israeli government tasked Colel Chabad with providing Passover food security for 30,000 households affected by the Coronavirus economic crisis.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Infections in Bnei Brak are increasing eightfold every three days, compared to the twofold national average.
Yamina made inroads deep into the heart of Aguda/Shas territory.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
More than 100 Orthodox and Ultra-Orthodox students from Israel and dozens of other countries took part in the fourth annual Jerusalem College of Technology hackathon, working for 48 hours on innovative projects and designs.
“Monsey used to be a nice, calm, quiet place, and now, not so much.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Jewish women seeking ritual pool services have thus far had to travel quite a distance, to China or Japan, to use a mikvah for family purity.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The party is not obligated to appoint any female candidate to its electoral list, but the door is opened to the possibility.
In an effort to bring down wedding costs, the Bobov-45 Rebbe gave new wedding ceremony guidelines his followers.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Religious parties in the coalition refused to back the legislation called the Hareidi Draft Law.
After having no success in reaching a compromise with the ultra-Orthodox parties, an additional 45 days were granted for the measure by the High Court.
3,070 Ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) Israelis enlisted in the IDF in 2017
“Non-vaccinated children are exposed to various diseases and may lead to outbreaks of infectious diseases which could end in death.”
The funds were to be allocated to pay for consultants, vendors and services as well as to purchase video conferencing equipment for yeshivas.
The Ministry said the consulate will deal with matters such as lost or stolen travel documents, and any other emergency assistance.
By JNi.Media
The reported cost of each luxury 1,335 sq. ft., 5-room apartment, will be only one million shekel – $276,000.
By JNi.Media
"Imagine taking a chunk of rotting corpse from a stagnant sewer, placing it in a blender and spraying the filthy liquid in your face."
The party list features names from a variety of sides inside Israeli society.
By JNi.Media
Azaria, for her part, argued that she had been receiving calls from her Haredi supporters who were "shocked by the act and expressed their disgust."
By JNi.Media
Rabbi Avrumi Getz, author of Meshiv La'Shoel, is known as the most prolific promoter of the teachings of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov in America.
By JNi.Media
Netanyahu told the three Haredi coalition leaders at the meeting, who insist they oppose the draft law in its present form: "I do not want new elections, but I'm not afraid of elections, and if there are elections, I'll do fine."
By JNi.Media
Eventually, the IPS will purchase and issue suits and hats to prisoners who have received permission to wear them.
By JNi.Media
The number of Haredim who received a Mahat diploma rose 48%, from 516 in 2012 to 764 in 2017
By JNi.Media
"You will be surprised to hear who is the greatest proponent of the Torah in the world: the Zionist regime. Every year the Israeli government invests billions of shekels in the Torah world."
By JNi.Media
Only about 15-17% of Haredim ages 18-44 celebrate Independence Day in a festive manner.
Bennett has been courting the Haredi community to expand the ranks of Bayit Yehudi voters.
By JNi.Media
If the Gerrer Rebbe sticks to his guns about running the full vote on the bill to end before ever tending to the budget bill, it would effectively spell the end of Netanyahu's coalition government.
By JNi.Media
“This isn’t the time to attack Orthodox Jews, let’s find these specific men and deal with it that way,” one user suggested.
By JNi.Media
The clash over the bill is reaching the point where the gloves would be pulled off and the political fisticuffs could start.
By JNi.Media
Since the passing of the IDF enlistment law by Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid, Rabbi Auerbach enhanced his struggle against army service.
By JNi.Media
Supreme Court President, Justice Esther Hayut, and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked praised the appointment.
By JNi.Media
"This basic law seeks to anchor the right of those who wish to dedicate themselves to a meaningful period of Torah study to the removal of other obligations ... such as security service and voluntary national service.
“This will allow us to positively contribute to helping these couples build healthy new relationships and families in accordance with Halacha and the laws of the State of Israel."
By JNi.Media
Deputy Knesset Speaker MK Yisrael Eichler (United Torah Judaism) compared the women's committee's visit to Beit Shemesh to a visit by supporters of Rabbi Meir Kahane to Umm al-Fahm.
MK Yitzhak Herzog spoke about the rabbi’s modesty and spiritual power, and said his impact on haredi Judaism would continue to be felt for generations.
By JNi.Media
Birthright brought 48,000 Jewish kids ages 18 to 26 to Israel in 2017, but not through the Reform movement, apparently.
By JNi.Media
The Sheva Brachot meal could not be held as planned on Shabbat morning because the existence of a bride and a groom was in doubt.
Three extremists campaigning against the Conscription Law publicized his name and private family information.
By JNi.Media
"It has gone through chuppas, bris millahs, public conferences and various other events, during which people who needed medicine, spouses, blessings and salvation sat on it."
By JNi.Media
In late August, four coalitions of Jewish clergy issued statements they planned to boycott the president's call, in response to Trump’s weak response to the neo-Nazi and white supremacist riots in Charlottesville, Va.
By Chabad.org
Hurricane Harvey flooded two of the few main supermarkets carrying kosher food and caused the other two to shut down as well—one has been turned into a shelter by authorities—and supplies are now beginning to run low.
"It would have been great if this issue had been resolved amicably between the sides rather than by the court."
By JNi.Media
The quality of Israel’s education has improved over past two decades, and yet Israel is near the bottom of the developed world, its 8th graders get correct answers on only half their math questions, Israel’s weakest students are also the weakest in the developed world, and Israel’s top students rank only in the bottom third of the developed world.
June 26, 2026 
